AVIDrone’s Katana electric helicopter lifted 3.84 times its own weight to win first place and $1.25 million.
Credit: Paul Flacks/DARPA
Against the backdrop of a museum celebrating more than 120 years of aviation history, a DARPA competition has taken a small but potentially significant step forward in aerospace technology. The Pentagon advanced research agency’s $6.5 million Lift Challenge may have fallen short of its bold goal of...
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